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Globalizing Thai amulets: the Chinese-Singaporean role in commoditizing objects of faith

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2023
Thai amulets have gained increasing popularity among Chinese believers throughout Asia and beyond. This study aims to explore the social life of Thai amulets, their complex relationship with Chinese religiosity in the highly individualistic Singapore ...
Nattakarn Naepimai, Somrak Chaisingkananont   +1 more
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Epigraphy, Image, and Material: The Strategic Power of the Word “And” on Byzantine Uterine Amulets

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 2023
:In the context of social taboos excluding bleeding women from church spaces, a Byzantine uterine amulet references the gospel story of the healing of the bleeding woman for those needing alternative means for aid.
Jacquelyn Tuerk-Stonberg, Jordan Bardzik
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What's (not) in a leather pouch? Tracing Islamic amulets in Asante, Ghana

Africa, 2020
Islamic charms and amulets (lāyā) are simultaneously fairly common, highly valued and ardently contested items among Muslims in Asante. Tracing their history and the relations in which Muslims in Asante manufacture, make sense of and debate them, this ...
Benedikt Pontzen
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Amulets from Anatolia: the material culture of the evil eye in Turkey

, 2020
Belief in the Evil Eye is strong in the Mediterranean region and equivalent practices based on ancient beliefs continue to exist across Anatolia today.
H. Begiç
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Amulet

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Mobile Medical Applications, 2014
Interest in using mobile technologies for health-related applications (mHealth) has increased. However, none of the available mobile platforms provide the essential properties that are needed by these applications. An mHealth platform must be (i) secure; (ii) provide high availability; and (iii) allow for the deployment of multiple third-party mHealth ...
Andres Molina-Markham, Ronald Peterson, Joseph Skinner, Tianlong Yun, Bhargav Golla, Kevin Freeman, Travis Peters, Jacob Sorber, Ryan Halter, David Kotz   +9 more
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Tonii: Customizable Amulets that Activate Augmented Reality Suits

SIGGRAPH Labs
This work introduces Tonii, an integration of augmented reality (AR) technology, artistic expression, community engagement and social empowerment. Tonii empowers participants to craft unique amulets adorned with symbols that encapsulate fundamental ...
Yingxi Adelle Lin, Matthew Pinner
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Amulets and the Ritual Efficacy of Christian Symbols

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology, 2019
Although “magical” amulets are often overlooked in studies of early Christian material culture, they provide unique insight into the lives of early Christians.
Rangar H. Cline
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Amulets in the Roman empire: the longue durée of a diversified knowledge-practice

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2019
This handsome, well-illustrated book is yet another exemplification of the current interest in the everyday, instrumental use of religious resources for a range of different purposes, primarily the integrity of the subjectively significant unit, ranging ...
R. Gordon
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Magical Amulets

Harvard Theological Review, 1946
Most of the objects to be discussed in this paper belong to the class known as “Gnostic” amulets. That term has been so widely accepted that there is something to be said for retaining it; for even those who recognize its inaccuracy find it a convenient designation for things that cannot easily be brought under any other descriptive name.
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